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Specvlvm Mvsicae

Directed by Roberto Illiano.

The series is to consist of important musicological monographs and miscellanea covering the whole range of music history from Antiquity to the present.

Women Composers in New Perspectives, 1800-1950: Genres, Contexts and Repertoire

edited by Mariateresa Storino and Susan Wollenberg, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Speculum Musicae, 49), pp. xii+350, ISBN 978-2-503-60630-9. Contents   This volume offers new scholarship on women composers...

Musical Improvisation in the Baroque Era

edited by Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019 (Speculum Musicae, 33), ISBN: 978-2-503-58369-3. Contents In the Baroque period there is a large discrepancy between sound entity and musical...

Beethoven the European: Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception

edited by Malcolm Miller and William Kinderman  Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 (Speculum Musicae, 48), pp. xx+410, ISBN 978-2-503-60290-5.   Contents   Beethoven’s music, stemming from its 18th- and 19th-century European context,...

Musical Exoticism. The Mediterranean and Beyond in the Long Nineteenth Century

edited by Michael Christoforidis and Ramón Sobrino, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Speculum Musicae, 53), pp. xii+402, ISBN 978-2-503-61177-8. Contents The sound image of Otherness has been a...

The Sound of Empire: Soundscapes, Aesthetics and Performance between «Ancien régime» and Restoration

edited by Federico Gon and Emmanuel Reibel, Turnhout, Brepols, 2023 (Specvlvm Mvsicae, 51), pp. xvi + 352, ISBN 978-2-503-60849-5. Contents The second half of the eighteenth...

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5. Contents The figurative arts — or the...

Piano Culture in 19th-Century Paris

edited by Massimiliano Sala, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014 (Speculum Musicae, 26), pp. XII+414, ISBN 978-2-503-55326-9. Contents The volume aims to investigate the world of the piano in...

Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe c. 1150-1330

edited by Gregorio Bevilacqua and Thomas B. Payne, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 40), pp. xviii+318, ISBN: 978-2-503-59099-8. Contents The long thirteenth-century saw the emergence and...

Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler: The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860-1897)

Contents completed, revised and edited by Sybille Werner, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020 (Speculum Musicae, 36), pp. xviii+810, ISBN 978-2-503-58814-8. The present volume has been made possible with...

Chamber Music in Europe (1850-1918): Composition, Mediation and Reception

edited by Catrina Flint de Médicis and François de Médicis, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024 (Speculum Musicae, 52), pp. xviii+360, ISBN 978-2-503-61176-1. Contents The present volume has been...

Forthcoming Publications

New Perspectives on the 19th-Century Cello

edited by George Kennaway, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae) This book offers a rich variety of approaches to the nineteenth-century cello and cellists. Its range...

The Theatre of Death: Noble Funerals with Music in Early Modern Europe

edited by Grégoire Bauguil, Galliano Ciliberti and Galliano Ciliberti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 63). The public nature of funerals for the noble elite was...

Soundscapes of Histories Entwined: Food and Music 1400-1850

edited by Iain Fenlon and Allen Grieco, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 64). For many, the coincidence of social practices uniting music and food immediately...

The Italian Madrigal in Performance: Architectural Settings, Materiality, and Social Spaces

edited by Stefano Lorenzetti, Elisa Sala, and Livio Ticli, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Musica Incarnata, 4). The volume rethinks the Italian madrigal not as a self-contained...

New Releases

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5. Contents The figurative arts — or the...

The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2),pp. xx+276, ISBN 978-2-503-62192-0. Contents This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time,...

Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory

Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Contemporary Composers, 7), pp. xii+252, ISBN 978-2-503-61866-1.           Contents The present volume has been made possibile...

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1), ISBN 978-2-503-62191-3, pp. xvi+378. Contents For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...